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Old 01-05-2011, 02:06 AM   #1
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Red face Qt Programming

Hi, I wanted to begin learning how to develop in Qt. Aside from doing light reading, I installed Qt Creator to start working on some exercises. I am a little confused to as where to get started setting up an IDE and actually coding.

I want to attempt the exercise on this website:
http://flylib.com/books/en/2.385.1.49/1/

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Exercise: The Qt Core Module

Write a birthday reminder application called birthdays. Classes to reuse are QDate, QFile, QString, QStringList, and QTextStream.

*Store name/birthday pairs in any format you like, in a file called birthdays.dat.

*birthdays with no command line arguments opens the file and lists all birthdays coming up in the next 30 days, in chronological order.

*birthdays -a "john smith" "yyyy-mm-dd" should add an entry to the file.

*birthdays -n 40 shows birthdays coming up in the next 40 days.

*birthdays namespec searches for the birthday paired with the name namespec.
I am not asking for code help, but how do I setup for development? I've tried copy pasting some basic code to test out and have had no luck. What do you guys use for Qt development?
 
Old 01-05-2011, 02:11 AM   #2
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... I've tried copy pasting some basic code to test out and have had no luck. What do you guys use for Qt development?
You start in non-IDE environment - in such a manner you have a chance to understand what is really going on.
 
Old 01-05-2011, 02:15 AM   #3
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Do you recommend any books or websites that will get me started?
 
Old 01-05-2011, 02:56 AM   #4
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Old 01-05-2011, 04:47 AM   #5
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Do you recommend any books or websites that will get me started?
Can you compile, link and run a "Hello, world!\n" program from command line (regardless of Qt) ?

If not, enter

gcc tutorial

into a WEB search engine and start from there. Don't forget to add '-Wall -Wextra' to your compilation command line.
 
Old 01-05-2011, 05:15 AM   #6
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I find you question a little strange, given that QCreator is the IDE for Qt development. Maybe you need to explain the situation a little more. How did you install Qt onto your system, via a package manager or download?
 
Old 01-05-2011, 05:55 AM   #7
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qt creator usually has loads of example projects.
usually at the start screen.
make sure you have 'em.
 
Old 01-05-2011, 08:58 AM   #8
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Try the official Qt tutorial:

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/tutorial.html

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/tutorials.html
 
  


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